Batavia, NY – Old Man Winter continued his residency at Batavia Downs on Thursday afternoon (January 29), bringing more wind, snow and frigid temperatures to the proceedings. Only a Crazy Fool would want to race in that, and so he did. He won the $10,000 Class A-AA trot with an impressive turn of foot.
Crazy Fool (Kyle Cummings) watched from his pylon start as Latavius (Brett Beckwith) took the lead and passed the eighth post. But Cummings had Crazy Fool back straight away and crossed to regain the lead in the quarter in:30.3. He then moved to the halfway mark in 1:02, where the race split into two groups separated by a healthy gap.
Crazy Fool continued his measured control as Double Class (Denny Bucceri) came from third to tie alongside Latavius at three-quarters in 1:31.1. The trio then entered turn four where Crazy Fool looked best, Latavius held off Double Class’s challenge and the rest of the field was no longer a factor. Returning home, Crazy Fool had a one-and-a-half length lead over Latavius, who had no answer as the wire closed, making Crazy Fool an easy winner in 2:00.2.
Crazy Fool ($12.48) is owned by its driver Kyle Cummings, in partnership with Matthew Miller. Tammy Cummings trains the 6-year-old gelding son of Crazy Wow-Winkys Gal.
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The other big winner on Thursday was driver Drew Monti, who scored a Grand Slam at the lines. Monti won with Rock Me Always (2:00.3, $4.36), Dandys Bb Eight (2:00.3, $4.74), Kb’ssweetcaroline (1:59.3, $7.36) and Mcvera (1:58.3, $3.50).
Monti’s victory quad pushed him back into the top spot for wins (15) this match, vaulting past Brett Beckwith (12), who was eliminated on Thursday.
Nine different trainers won one race each during the nine-race program.
Live racing at Batavia Downs meets again on Tuesday (Feb. 3) at 1 p.m
There are only two days of racing left in the winter meeting, but the final pair of programs will be action-packed and offer the largest set of purses of this meeting.
The $13,000 finals of the Batavia Downs Winter Series trot and the $12,500 Open for fillies and mares will take place on Tuesday (February 3) and on Thursday (5 February) the $14,000 and $11,000 finals of the Batavia Downs Winter Series gaits and the $12,500 Open pace for men will be contested. All of these races will be highly competitive and offer excellent betting opportunities at all levels.
Free full card history performance programs for every live card of racing in Batavia can always be downloaded from The Downs website (bataviadownsgaming.com) under the ‘Live Racing’ tab. Then you can watch all the races live for free as they happen on the Batavia Downs YouTube page.
Through Tim Boyarskifor Batavia Downs
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